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• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise ... school’s grading system, just put it in the updates section

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  sense of humor: 1) This article. 2) My bff Sam B. '14's post on my ... only takes 3-5 minutes to complete a subject evaluation and it?s a great

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  no input whatsoever on the admissions process. NONE! - A.S. said, I ... 'm sure things will work out. A.S. replied, Based on what I've read on the ... replied, Yes, coding is definitely required for physicists! - I. S. asked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  It was 2AM. After a heart-warming and tummy-filling Thanksgiving break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister, but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   It’s mid-October in Cambridge ... essays what’s happening PLEASE HALP As the essay prompts suggest, there is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  materials scientist who graduated in the early '70s and she told me about her ... lucky we all are to have a home like Tetazoo. Lauren S. '16 and Micky D

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  my head. Case in point: Here we have Schrödinger’s equation in its ... work and no play. Let’s just say there are some interesting ways to get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... than standing for Standard Temperature and Pressure, S refers to transfer

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... ) could fill a couple pages. Let’s just say I finally settled on my fall

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  through one’s undergraduate years and beyond. Some people don’t sleep ... directions; that’s what will happen when you get to college. Very few of us end

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... year's class. Thanks and good luck -

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  has been so surreal watching the '16s arrive on campus and thinking ... class that will make me feel old and crufty (wait, jk - '17s will be at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  unsolicited advice/storytelling. If that’s not your cup of tea, maybe this will ... ’re doing on their major’s requirements. I was sitting in bio recitation when

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  Alan’s Early Universe class. I missed a lecture because I was sick, so ... we could actually get to all my questions. There’s now an e-mail thread

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  people, its problems, and possible solutions into perspective. P. S. I ... by Terrascope Radio students--many thanks to my fellow '15s Alex

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  game and the project. Last year’s theme, “Food Factor,” explored food ... assisted your opponents? My daughter’s team learned an enormous amount about

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  'm casually following along (without enrolling) in MAS.S60: Practical Natural ... .864: (Grad) Advanced Natural Language Processing. I'm poking through the MAS.S

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  .470 - Web Programming Competition 6.570 - Mobile App Competition 6.S912 ... it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my first semester at MIT is that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question ... subjectively . Or you could reply by declaring that it’s unclear what I am trying

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is your solution to a problem, pi is the ith particular subproblem, and s

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011